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Updated Command-line-user-interface (markdown) authored Aug 02, 2014 by Tasos Laskos's avatar Tasos Laskos
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......@@ -73,13 +73,13 @@ in the [knowledge base](http://support.arachni-scanner.com/kb/).
* [Debug (--debug)](#debug)
* [Only positives (--only-positives)](#only-positives)
* [HTTP](#http)
* [HTTP request limit (--http-req-limit)](#http-req-limit)
* [User agent (--http-user-agent)](#http-user-agent)
* [Request concurrency (--http-request-concurrency)](#http-req-limit)
* [HTTP request queue size (--http-queue-size)](#http-queue-size)
* [HTTP request timeout (--http-timeout)](#http-timeout)
* [HTTPS only (--https-only)](#https-only)
* [Cookie jar (--cookie-jar)](#cookie-jar)
* [Cookie string (--cookie-string)](#cookie-string)
* [User agent (--user-agent)](#user-agent)
* [Custom header (--custom-header)](#custom-header)
* [Example](#custom-header_example)
* [Login check URL (--login-check-url)](#login-check-url)
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**Multiple invocations?**: `no`
This will suppress all messages except for positive matches -- vulnerabilities.
This will suppress all messages except for for the ones denoting sucess -- usually regarding the discovery of some issue.
<h2 id='http'><a href='#http'>HTTP</a></h2>
<h3 id='http-req-limit'><a href='#http-req-limit'>HTTP request limit (--http-req-limit)</a></h3>
<h3 id='http-user-agent'><a href='#http-user-agent'>User agent (--http-user-agent)</a></h3>
**Expects**: `string`
**Default**: `"Arachni/<version>"`
**Multiple invocations?**: `no`
Specify a value for the `User-Agent` HTTP request header field.
<h3 id='http-request-concurrency'><a href='#http-request-concurrency'>Request concurrency (--http-request-concurrency)</a></h3>
**Expects**: `integer`
......@@ -367,11 +377,11 @@ This will suppress all messages except for positive matches -- vulnerabilities.
**Multiple invocations?**: `no`
Limit how many concurrent HTTP request are sent.
Sets the maximum amount of requests to be active at any given time; this usually directly translates to the amount of open connections.
**Note**: If your scan seems unresponsive try lowering the limit.
**Note**: If your scan seems unresponsive try lowering the limit to easy the server's burden.
**Warning**: Given enough bandwidth and a high limit it could cause a DoS.
**Warning**: Given enough bandwidth and a high enough concurrency setting the scan could cause a DoS.
Be careful when setting this option too high, don't kill your server.
<h3 id='http-queue-size'><a href='#http-queue-size'>HTTP request queue size (--http-queue-size)</a></h3>
......@@ -444,18 +454,6 @@ Cookies, as a string, to be sent to the web application.
--cookie-string='userid=19;sessionid=deadbeefbabe'
<h3 id='user-agent'><a href='#user-agent'>User agent (--user-agent)</a></h3>
**Expects**: `string`
**Default**: `"Arachni/<version>"`
**Multiple invocations?**: `no`
You can pass your own user agent string which will be sent to the webserver under audit.
Default is `Arachni/<version>`.
<h3 id='custom-header'><a href='#custom-header'>Custom header (--custom-header)</a></h3>
**Expects**: `string`
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